Justrite Prayers Go Up

Well it is hard to believe that another year has gone by. I wanted to say thank you to all that have supported me throughout the year! Today I had some time that I rarely get anymore to create a special card...goes out to all my blogging friends. I pray the coming new year will keep us all in good health and surround us with many blessings! The stamp I used is from the JustRite Kaleidoscope set. I added lots of bling as you can see! The shimmery silver paper that I used for my trim and the die cut is from Pizzazz Aplenty...although it is hard to get a good picture of this shimmery paper. Not much on my agenda until later on tonight...sitting with 2 of my grandchildren for the New Year after church...what better way to bring in the New Year than with our grandchildren! Again, thanks for all your support this year and best wishes to each and every one of you for a healthy and happy new year!

HUGS!
Vicki

Squigglefly Kris Kringle

 

Good morning! This morning I have a Squigglefly image to share with you...meet Kris Kringle! Is this the most awesome image or what???? The image is shaded so lovely that there is really no need for coloring but I chose to color his hat and the berries in his poinsettia. Also added a little glitter to the ball on his hat. The sentiment is computer generated by moi. I love this so much that I actually made 3 cards using this same image! Ohhh and I have to share that all the paper used on this card is from Pizzazz Aplenty...I just ordered some more of that awesome red card stock that feels like velvet...really honestly it just makes the card feel so expensive! The silver paper is some of Pizzazz Aplenty's shimmer card stock. How is that for some Pizzazz??!! Thank you so much for stopping by today...AND leaving some love! Each of you know that I will be by to see you as well...can't wait to see what you have today! Have a great day!

HUGS!

Vicki

Doodle Pantry Christmas Wreath

 

Hello all, and happy November! Hope everyone had an awesome Halloween! Today is new release day at the Doodle Pantry! Laurie has given us a number of awesome images to work with and I chose to play with the Christmas Wreath. My card is VERY clean and simple but thought the image needed no competition! The image is pre-colored and the sentiment was computer generated. After adding a ribbon and some stickles, I was happy with it! The square gems in the corner are from Pizzazz Aplenty. Been a little under the weather the last couple of days, hope to get my hiney moving today...it is beautiful here in our area....sunny and almost 70! Thank you much for stopping in and please do go check out the new releases at the store! Have a great day!

HUGS!

Vicki

FSS Christmas Cardinal

Good morning! Today's card makes me yearn for Christmas and SNOW! I know if I wait long enough they are BOTH just around the corner! I used FSS Christmas Cardinal image on my card for today...it is pre-colored and just one in a series of winter birds that Tracey has in the store. All the paper used on this card is from Pizzazz Aplenty...the silver and green paper has such a pretty pretty shimmer to it that I just couldn't catch on the camera. I used the Fancy Square nesties to emboss the silver layer and die cut the green layer. The flourish is a Marrianne die...added a silver doily behind the image to help set it off the card. My corners were cut with an SU punch and embossed with Cuttlebug folder. As I look at this card now, I wish I had added some sparkle in the image with some stickles or glitter....guess I can still do that. Anyhoooooo, hope you enjoyed my creation today and are inspired to go out and check out this set of winter birds in the FSS store! Have a great day today and thank you for dropping in and leaving some love!

HUGS!
Vicki

FSS Emma the Skating Elf

Hello to all! I had a pretty productive weekend...both in the yard AND in my room! I had a blast playing with this new image of Tracey's. I used Fred She Said's Emma the Skating Elf  pre-colored image. Isn't she just so cute? This was a really fun image to play with...the possibilities are endless with it! After printing the image, I cut it out with Nestability circle, matted with a slightly larger nestie circle and added some glitter around it to make it festive. I don't know if you can see it, but there is also some clear glitter in Emma's coat and hat. I used the Score Pal to score the white paper in behind the image and an EK Success punch for my border. The gold paper I used was from my stash and the gold flat back gems are from Pizzazz Aplenty! If you have not been out to see Pizzazz Aplenty lately, you really need to....wow what a new assortment of beads and stick pin accessories and charms she has! Guarantee you won't be disappointed! Well, it is late and I am ready to call it a day. Thanks to all of my awesome supporters who have been leaving love...it is very much appreciated. Hope to be back little later in the week or maybe even tomorrow, who knows! Take care!

HUGS!

Vicki

Wedding Card

Good morning! Busy weekend for us! We have a wedding to attend today and tomorrow hopefully we get to some of the much needed yardwork! We have a huge oak tree in our back yard that blesses us with tons and tons of shade which means it ALSO blesses us with tons and tons of leaves in the fall! And I need to get my pond ready for winter so my outside friends can survive the winter. Just got home from my workout, got a shower and thought I better get this card done while my hair was drying! This is a pretty clean and simple card but does have some elegance about it. The brides colors are black and white so I thought I would go with that...used the Ornate#2 Sizzix folder to emboss the card around the bride and gooms' names, added some black flatback pearls from Pizzazz Aplenty, spritzed with some Sheer Shimmer and that was it! Not bad for a quickie. Well, have to run...hopefully your weekend will be a wonderful one and I thank you tons for stopping in and sharing some of your time with me!
HUGS!
Vicki

Doodle Pantry Quirky Owl

Hello!!! Well this was one fun card to make! I worked with Doodle Pantry's Quirky Owl....OMG the colors and patterns in this image set are just phenomenal. I used the colored version of the image set but it comes with the outline image as well as the two patterned papers that I used in my design...as well as two sentiments...one of which I used. It was just fun to play with it. The pretty square shaped pink bling is from Pizzazz Aplenty. I also used a different fold for my card and also decorated the inside as you see below:

Please take a moment and visit the Doodle Pantry...there are soooo many fun images to play with I bet you won't be able to pick just one! Hope your day was wonderful...thank you very much for stopping in!

HUGS!

Vicki

FSS Love You This Much

Good morning! The weekend is here and what a relief. It has been a long work week for me. Hope you all have some fun planned for this weekend. Me...may watch some of the grandchildren but otherwise no big plans...which is good...that may mean some play time! Well todays card is very similar to one I made back in April...it was a requested card for a friend's little neice's first birthday. The image I used is FSS I Love You This Much...one of the colored versions. The red paper I used is from Pizzazz Aplenty...I just LOVE this paper...it is like velvet! The heart frame is my own creation! I designed it it Make the Cut...this is my first time using it on a card and I think I chose the perfect image to use it with! Well, I am off to work out and get my day started...Have a great day and thank you so much for stopping by to see me!
HUGS!
Vicki

Doodle Pantry Candy Cane Ants!!

Hello again! Well it is a new month and I am delighted to have been asked to stay on as a Guest Designer for another month with Doodle Pantry! And oh oh oh, what awesome images we have to work with this month! I chose to work with Candy Cane Ants.This is one of the pre-colored images...Laurie does a great job with her coloring...I just added a little Xmas Red Stickles to that sweet candy cane. I used a MS punch around the page punch...Vintage Floral I believe it is called to frame out my image...the inside of the frame was cut out using Scalloped Square nestabilities. The awesome red gems, the red paper and the red and white bakers twine are all from Pizzazz Aplenty. The sentiment used on my card is included in the set along with some other sentiments and some digi paper! I just love those darn ants...they are so fun to work with and just make a card unique. Be sure to stop over at the Doodle Pantry today and check out all the new releases for October...and come back often as I will be showing off some more of those awesome images! Hope you have a great weekend...we are off to a wedding this weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

HUGS!
Vicki

Doodle Pantry Candy Corn Ants

Good morning again! If you are looking for the FSS Blog hop posting, please go here. Today, I am sharing a creation using the Doodle Pantry Candy Corn Ants....OMG these ant images that Lori creates are the most fun to work with! Actually if I was truthful with you...I have worked with this image twice now! My dear granddaughter got up to my desk and took a marker to the first card I created with this image! OHHHH gosh, my DIL was horrified...ahhh it happens and she is such a cutie pie, how could I be mad???? So this is my second attempt at a creation with this image. I used the colored version of the image, cut it out with oval nestabilities. Lots going on here on this card...used MS punch to fancy up the corners of my frame around the image as well as create the inside border piece. I just had to play off of the ghost in the image so I used a cuttlebug die I had to cut out some cute little ghosts and place them in such a manner around the frame that looked like they were hiding behind the frame. The pumpkin is also a cuttlebug die as well as the BOO!. The flourish is from Cheery Lynn Designs called Fanciful Flourish. And of course I had to add some pizazz from Pizzazz Aplenty...the yellow beading around the image is from Judy. You will also see a little bling on the piece of candy corn...I used the Sakura Stardust Gelly Roll pens to glitter up that candy! OHHH and  the paper in the background is part of the colored image pack!!! What fun this card is! LOL I may just use this card as my dear granddaughter's Halloween card! Yeah one down, 4 to go!
Well not a lot planned today, may have a football game to go to later on this afternoon if the rain stops. Other than that, a free day for me! Hope you all are well, thanks tons for stopping in to see me and letting me share my fun as a Guest Designer for Doodle Pantry this month. Have a blessed day today.

HUGS!
Vicki 

FSS Hydrangea

Good morning! Still out in Arizona but had this card made ahead of time and wanted to share. I had a blast with this card! The image is from Fred She Said called Hydrangea Bouquet. Is it just beautiful? There is a lot going on with this card...the embossing is from a Paper Studio embossing folder that I had purchased from Hobby Lobby...sorry I didn't write down the name of it. The patterned paper on the bottom was from SU. And oh my gosh I am loving that doily die from Cheery Lynn Designs!!! It was just perfect for this card. The bling added at the bottom of the card I had purchased on sale at Michael's quite some time ago. Around the doily you see some flat embellies...these were actually a string of flat pearls from Pizzazz Aplenty and I cut them off the string to place one by one on the doily. I really like how this card turned out and hope you do too! Well I have a busy day of meetings today so need to get moving...I hope you have a blessed day and thank you very very much for stopping in to see me and leaving some love!

HUGS!

Vicki

FSS BLOG HOP!!!

Good morning and welcome to another Fred She Said blog hop! This blog hop starts today and runs through midnight Friday, July 29th EDT. If you got to my blog from Donna's then you are hopping on the right path! If not and you seemed to have lost your way, stop by the Fred She Said blog for the list of participants. The theme for this hop is FAVORITES and Tracey asked us to interperate that as we wish. So, my FAVORITE holiday is the Christmas season and anyone who knows me well KNOWS my favorite season is winter...SNOW, SNOW, SNOW! LOL if I sound like I am out of my gourd, I might be cause our weather has been so horribly hot (heat index 120) that my mind may be fried or dehydrated!! Anyhoo, I chose to cool things down in my mind with the FSS Christmas Cardinal (colored version). I made the white mat with a border punch I had...and no it was not a punch around the page set! Had to do some math to get it to work out but I think it came out pretty even. Once I had my image printed I glitzed it up a bit with some Sakura Stardust Gellyroll pens.  I matted the image with white cardstock cut with the Spellbinders Square nestability and then matted that with red cardstock cut with the Spellbinders Eyelet Squares Nestability. The sentiment was computer generated by myself and cut out with the Spellbinders Ribbon Tab Trio. And all my bling...from the flatback pearls to the Baker's Twine are from Pizzazz Aplenty! The snowflake was cut out using a Cuttlebug die. OK, OK...now that you have gotten through all that you MUST be wondering what the prize is and HOW to qualify!! ONE lucky winner will win:

$15 Gift Voucher to Bearly Mine Designs

$15 Prize Package of yummy goodies chosen by Judy from Pizzazz APlenty

$30 Gift Certificate to the Fred She Said Store

The WINNER will be announced Saturday morning July 30th on the Fred She Said Blog AND the FSS Challenge Blog. To ENTER, please leave a comment on each BLOG HOP POST. There will be ONE winner. A random hop post will be chosen and then a comment on that post will be chosen randomly to win. BLOG HOP closes Friday, JULY 29 midnight EDT so please leave your comments by then. Commenting on ALL the hop stops is not necessary to WIN... BUT it definitely increases your chances of winning and spreads some LOVE! Please make sure you leave your name in your comment! NOTE: some DT's moderate their comments for evil spam so please be patient if you don't see your comment right away.
I hope you enjoyed seeing my creation and enjoy the hop! Please hop along to Debbie's blog and see what she has in store for you! Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving some LOVE! Have a great day!

HUGS!
Vicki

STAMP TV Challenge

Well today I decided to join in the fun over at STAMP TV...there is a CAS sketch challenge that ends Sunday night so I thought I might try it out. For my card I used all Gina K paper and stamps. The stamps I used are from the Spring Mix set. I stamped the butterflies on the background layer using Tim Holtz Walnut Stain distress ink. The flower is heat embossed onto the card stock and the white sentiment layer is pop dotted for dimension. I used some Chocolate Chip flat back pearls from Pizzazz Aplenty for my corner embellishment. This was a fun card to create and got me back to doing some stamping which I have not done in a while. Well, not much on my agenda for the rest of the day...maybe some playing and visiting are in order. Thanks for stopping in to see what I have been up to and please do come by again! Have a blessed day!

HUGS!
Vicki

FSS Ornate Butterfly

What a beautiful day we have here today! Birds are singing, weather is nice and cool and I have the day off! Can't get much better than that! Speaking of beautiful, that is how I feel about the card above...what do you think? I really love all white cards, like clean and simple. The beautiful butterfly used on this card is Ornate Butterfly....in the FSS Store. Now this awesome butterfly comes as as a digi and cutting file set. I used the cutting file set and cut it out with my Black Cat Cougar. I ran the bottom layer of the butterfly through the Xyron, put the top layer on and then added some glitter. Some of the other elements used on the card are Cuttlebug Musical Flourish and Polka Dots embossing folders and Nestabilities Lattice Rectangles and Labels Eight dies.The embellishments that I used on the butterfly body and on the edge of the frame are from Pizzazz Aplenty. 
Now that my card has been covered, I have a surprise for you today. Today is my birthday and I am giving one lucky commenter a gift...I have begun making my own paper flowers with punches and I will use Random number to pick a lucky commenter on Friday. Want to see what you will get?

 Just leave some love and you are in the drawing! Now know, I am just learning to make these so they may not be "perfect" but I think they are surely usable! Have a great day today and thanks much for stopping by!
HUGS!
Vicki

FSS Teacup Pansies

Good morning! Hope you are off to a good start of your day today! I have a quick post today...just wanted to drop in and share with you a card that I created using the FSS Blue Pansies colored set. I cut the image out using Labels 18 nestie and added some glitter around the edges and to the cup. It is pop dotted on top of a blue piece of cardstock embossed with the Cuttlebug Musical Flourish folder...geez I really like that folder! Underneath that blue card stock the card is framed out with some gingham blue ribbon from Pizzazz Aplenty...I just thought it made a nice frame under the blue cardstock instead of it sitting right on the card base. Also you will see that I used some blue pearls...also from Pizzazz Aplenty...to embellish the card. The punch I used on the edge of my card I think was called Tulips...EK Success. Lot of fussing with this card but I do like how it turned out.
OH GOSH! Wanted to share with you in case you didn't already know...Judy at Pizzazz Aplenty is running her biannual sale on her rhinestones and flatback pearls...BUY ONE GET ONE FREE!
Well gotta run...I wish you all a great day today in whatever you are doing! Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving some love!

HUGS!
Vicki

FSS Lenten Roses

Good morning! What a beautiful but overly warm weekend! We were very busy this weekend catching up with each other...my husband and I! He had been gone for 10 days out of state and although we talked to each other daily, it seemed like forever! Yesterday we visited our state park but didn't stay too long since it was really too warm to do any hiking. So I did get a chance to work on some projects since the weather called for some indoor time! My card today is using the FSS Lenten Rose image again...as well as the same sentement I had used on my previous card...just presented a little differently. The embossed layer is one of my new Cuttlebug folders Musical Flourish...I am really liking the way it looks. The ribbon is from Pizzazz Aplenty...AND it is currently on sale! I think it was among one of my first purchases from Judy. Well today I am going to play some more AND do some long overdue visiting! I can't wait to see all the creations you have been making! Have a blessed day and happy creating!
HUGS!
Vicki

FSS Lenten Roses

Hello! I hope everyone is enjoying the long holiday weekend! I just wanted to stop by and show you a card I worked on today for a friend of mine. This image is from Fred She Said and it is called Lenten Roses. I used the precolored image as I wanted to try printing the image on photopaper just to see how it would come out! Tracey does such a marvelous job coloring that I had no doubt it would be nothing but beautiful and I was so right. The sentiment is also from Fred She Said...Angel and Christian Sentiments. I used Photoshop to do my editing. The embossing folder I used is one of my new ones Cuttlebug Tiffany. The flowers that I used are from Pizzazz Aplenty and I added my own textured leaves using a MS punch. The gold outlining around the cut out of the image was created using a Krylon Gold Leaf pen...looks nice...went on easy...BUT, not so sure it will STAY on that photo paper. Well going to close for now...thanks so much for stopping in to see me...hugs to all of you and have a great 4th of July!!!

HUGS!
Vicki

FSS WEE HUMINGBIRD and PETUNIA

Hello all! Gosh I try so hard to not fall behind in posting! I am sorry for being so long between posts again. Was a little preoccupied mentally...we got some bad news about our new little grandson Dax. My DIL called me to tell me that his checkup at the pediatric cardiologist did not go real well. Our little guy has 2 holes in his heart...his little heart is only the size of his tiny little fist and two holes! Right now they are going to observe him but most likely he may have to have open heart surgery to repair. We are just devastated. We had him for a few hours on Friday night and I just held him and hugged him and prayed that the Lord will see him through it! We were with all the kids again on Sunday for Father's Day and Ava's birthday and got to love on him some more. We just need to put our trust in God. I do have a card to share with you today...the image I used was the FSS Wee Hummingbird and Petunia colored set. I cut out the oval part of the image with an oval nestability and layered the petunia and pop dotted it for dimension. Added a little glitter to the tunies, AND to the pop dotted wee hummingbird as well. I matted the image on the beaded oval nestie and mounted the whole thing on an embossed white layer. I really like how it turned out. Hope you do too. OHHH here it is!

And of course I had to add some blue flat back rhinestones from Pizzazz Aplenty for a finishing touch!
OHHH and I wanted to mention that Fred is running a sale on a digi of the week each week through the end of the month of July. The DT members get to choose what digi we would like to see offered at 40% off...yep you read that right...40% OFF. This week's digi image was chosen by Robin and here is a link to her card she created with the digi she chose...The Old Truck. She did an awesome job with her creation. I will try to keep you updated each week on the digi that is for sale. Please take a moment and check out Robin's creation and visit the store!
Well, I have to run for now...hope to get some much needed visiting in. Thanks so much to all of you who stick with me through thick and thin for better or worse! Your support is greatly appreciated!

HUGS,
Vicki

FSS Monarch Butterfly SVG

Feeling a little pink today? I am tickled pink on how awesome this card came out. I know...tooting my own horn is not very nice but I do love how this card turned out. Let's start with that awesome butterfly. This butterfly is an svg file from FSS called Monarch Butterfly SVG. I used the double sided adhesive I had talked about in this post from All That Jazz Supplies to cut out both layers of the butterfly and applied pink glitter to the top layer and clear glitter to the bottom layer. Of course, I did all my cutting with my new best friend my Black Cat Lynx. What a beautiful butterfly. The layer with the white swirly images was created by moi...stamped the swirls randomly with white ink onto vellum. Layered underneath the vellum with various other card stock and of course some more glitter. The sentiment is from SU. The corners of the card were cut with an SU corner punch and adorned with some flatback pearls from Pizzazz Aplenty. Oh and if you look close you will see those same pearls on the body of the butterfly. I love working with vellum and should do more of it. Well, let me know your thoughts! Please be so kind to leave some love...it is so greatly appreciated. Hope your day was beautiful and your night is the same! Thanks for stopping by!

HUGS!
Vicki

FSS Sentimental Flower Doodledallion

Hello all! Well I had a day off yesterday and after playing outside for a few hours, I came back in to play some more! Guess you could say I had a PLAYDAY all the way around! Well, Tracey has a new image in the store...the Sentimental Flower Doodledalion. Such a cute flower to play with and it comes with soooo many goodies including 11 sentiments and some BONUS color pages! I chose to use the precolored image. I cut it out twice and layered it and also layered the sentiment and went around all the edges of the flower with Diamond Stickles. My card front was created using Nestabilities Large Circle dies and the embossing is the Cuttlebug Polka Dots folder. I have some new bling from Pizzazz Aplenty...the red square rhinestones in the lower corner...just love them! My day will be spent cleaning my craft room and maybe watching 2 of my grandsons a little later on in the day...after church. :) It is so darn chilly here today so there won't be much outside time! I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend and thank you so much for spending a little time with me! I will be out to see you all as well. Have a blessed day and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

HUGS!
Vicki